Boy, if this isn’t the siege of Minas Tirith, Eiffel Tower and all.

«In 885, a Viking army returned to Paris, where Ragnar had found such easy pickings four decades previously. This time the city was better defended, but the Northmen put it under siege and tormented the inhabitants for nearly a year. A famous account known as the Wars of the City of Paris, by a monk called Abbo of Saint-Germain, recounted the chaos as “fear seized the city—people screamed, battle horns resounded . . . Christians fought and ran about, trying to resist the assault.”»

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